Confirmed Rory Atkins - Joins Port Adelaide as part of a 3-way trade with Gold Coast and Collingwood

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Port would literally not be meeting the salary cap floor for next year without Atkins’ contract being on the books.

The salary cap is going up $2m, and we just lost Houston, Dixon and McKenzie without getting Perryman. Even adding Lukosius’ full salary wouldn’t be enough, especially when draftees have a standard contract of $130k next year. If Port was paying 100% salary cap this year it wouldn’t meet the salary floor of 95% for next year. That’s why clubs were throwing around those ridiculous offers for mediocre players like Battle, Perryman and Cumming.

So we basically have parked $400-$500k for a year because it’s an obligation for us to do so. It’s what we did with Matthew Lobbe when we traded him to Carlton.
 
Port would literally not be meeting the salary cap floor for next year without Atkins’ contract being on the books.

The salary cap is going up $2m, and we just lost Houston, Dixon and McKenzie without getting Perryman. Even adding Lukosius’ full salary wouldn’t be enough, especially when draftees have a standard contract of $130k next year. If Port was paying 100% salary cap this year it wouldn’t meet the salary floor of 95% for next year. That’s why clubs were throwing around those ridiculous offers for mediocre players like Battle, Perryman and Cumming.

So we basically have parked $400-$500k for a year because it’s an obligation for us to do so. It’s what we did with Matthew Lobbe when we traded him to Carlton.
LOL are you for real !!

If Richmond , North , Eagles , St Kilda can meet the floor you really believe what you just posted ?
And there is no parking thats throwing away $400k
 

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